Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Best of Flowers - Bouquet

Here is my fourth and final card in this Best of Flowers series.


As in the previous cards I have used Staz-on ink to stamp the images, and coloured the flowers and leaves of the bouquet with markers.

The base card is Pink Pirouette covered with paper from the current Designer Series Paper Stack. The patterns are are changing on these stacks in the new catalogue and will be available in each of the refreshed colour ways, very exciting!

Details of the Best of Flowers 25th Anniversary set for June can be found here. There will be another 25th Anniversary set of stamps launched in July, so watch this space.

Julia




Sunday, June 16, 2013

Best of Flowers - Daisy

My third card in this current set from Best of Flowers released this month, details here, uses the pretty little daisy head. Very useful as the 1 1/4" scallop punch fits it perfectly.


For the background panel I stamped daisies onto Whisper White card using black Staz-on ink. I stamped more daisies onto spare card and cut them out with the punch as above, inking the edges and colouring the centres with Pink Pirouette ink and marker pen. The leaves are punched with the three step bird punch. The second and third daisies are fixed to the front panel with foam dimensionals, tucking the leaves under, adding a few pearls to finish.

Back soon, with the fourth and final card in this set.

Have a good week.

Julia






Thursday, June 13, 2013

Best of Flowers - Daisy Silhouettes

Here is my second card using the daisy silhouette from the Best of Flowers stamp set.


This is a 12cm square card, and the silhouette daisies have been stamped in black Staz-on ink. To make it easy to line up the images I stamped the daisies once in the bottom left hand corner of the topper, turned the card stock clockwise and stamped again in bottom left hand corner, turn again and stamp again etc.

I used Whisper White card for stamping and dabbed colour onto the card using Pink Pirouette ink and the large stamping sponge.

Card used: Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Basic Black, Silver Glimmer Card.

To see the Best of Flowers Stamp Set, please click here.

Back in a few days with my third card.

Julia

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Best of Flowers - Hydrangea

Over the next couple of weeks I will be showing some cards made with a new set of stamps launched by Stampin' Up in celebration of their 25th Anniversary. A new Best of 25 Years stamp set will be released each month from June until October (5 in total) and they will be available until March 2014. Each set will have 3 - 5 images and will contain 1 new image with the others being favourites from the last quarter century. The sets are all clear mount and cost £13.95. To see the full set of stamps click here.

The June Best of 25 Years set is called Best of Flowers, and here is my first sample with apologies for the picture quality, I need a lesson in photography!


I stamped a pastel background with Pink Pirouette ink and the hydrangea image from the set. I then stamped the hydrangea again using black Staz-on ink onto a Whisper White card topper, and coloured this with markers. I added colour around the main image by dabbing on some Pink Pirouette ink using one of the large stamping sponges.

Card colours:  Whisper White, Basic Black, Pink Pirouette
Inks:  Pink Pirouette, Black Staz-on
Markers:  Pink Pirouette, Certainly Celery

Back soon.

Julia